Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1911 — The RING and the MANS SYNOPSIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The RING and the MANS

SYNOPSIS.

Wir/i some incidental delation n me woman

By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRAYDY

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A foolish young tenderfoot become* fascinated with the bold, artful wife of * drunken prospector in a western rainln* town. They prepare to elope tn a bUndIng billiard but are confronted by the maudlin busband. He is shot by the wife, but the chivalrous boy pins a note to ft»W takln* the crime upon himself. In their flight to the railroad station the woman's horse falls exhausted; the youth puts her on his own and follows hanfftng to the stirrup strap. Beelns he Is an impediment, the woman thrusts her escort into a snow drift and rides on. Half-frosen he stumbles Into the railroad station just M the train bears the woman .away. Twenty-five years later, this man. George Gormly, Is a multi-millionaire in New Yorif. He meets Eleanor Haldane, a beautiful and wealthy settlement worker, and co-operates with her in her work. Gormly becomes owner of- a steamship line and finds himself frustrated in pier and track extension plans by grafting aidermen. backed by the Gotham Traction Company. An automobile accident on a stormy Christmas eve brings the Haldanes to hts country home. Gormly makes the marooned party comfortable.